3 Great Cocktail Recipes for Your Next BBQ

Planning a BBQ? If so, consider whipping up a few of these delicious cocktail recipes for yourself and your guests! CEO Scott Binsack shares a few of his favorite summer cocktail recipes for your next gathering.

Cocktail Recipes: Summer Watermelon Cocktails

For this summery cocktail recipe, you’ll need:

Fresh watermelon cubes

Frozen seedless watermelon cubes

Tequila

Lime juice

Sugar syrup

Small handful of blueberries

8 mint leaves

Mint sprig

Puree watermelon cubes and strain the juice through a sieve to remove chunks an seeds. Lightly muddle a small handful of blueberries and mint leaves. Place in a collins glass or highball glass and add in the watermelon juice.

Then, add a couple shots of tequila, a dash of lime juice, a dash of sugar syrup. Shake well and serve over frozen watermelon cubes or ice. Garnish with a sprig of fresh mint and serve!

Cocktail Recipes: Strawberry Melon Cocktails

For this summery cocktail recipe, you’ll need:

2 dozen mint leaves and 4 sprigs for garnish

8 strawberries, plus 2 strawberry halves for garnish

8 ounces of rum

8 lemon wedges

2 ounces of sugar syrup

Lemon juice

Muddle the mint leaves and lemon wedges in a cocktail shaker and muddle thoroughly and divide between 2 highball glasses. Then, combine the sugar syrup, rum, a dash of lemon juice and ice in a cocktail shaker and shake well. Add ice cubes to the highball glasses and pour.

Garnish with mint sprigs and a strawberry half, speared through a toothpick. Enjoy!

Cocktail Recipes: Lemon Collins

This Lemon Collins drink is perfect for your BBQ on a hot summer evening. To make this drink, you’ll need:

Fresh lemon juice

16 mint sprigs

16 ounces of lemon liqueur like Limoncello

16 ounces of club soda

12 ounces of gin

4 dozen lemon slices (sliced very thin)

Sugar syrup

Blend the gin, lemon juice (about 8-12 ounces), and lemon liqueur in a pitcher, then refrigerate for about 2 hours or until chilled. Then, line each collins glass with 6 super thin lemon slices, add ice and pour. Add about 2 ounces of chilled club soda to each and garnish with 2 sprigs of mint. Makes 8 glasses.